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You can believe those rumors all you want, but a lot of purported "revenue" numbers from FB developers have been debunked in the last year.

If you really want to feel like you have left the continent (and still eat some great food), try Quebec City. There are loads of great hotels and you will hear even less english.

Just be happy that Howard doesn't change his name to Cramer and make stocktwits one big video blog.

Another aggregation model that is working is in Travel. Aggregators like Kayak.com are adding a lot of value for users.

It might not seem like an analogous concept to content/media aggregation like you are talking about, but there may be more parallels than are immediately obvious. The main one being that as many airlines and hotel companies can be aggregator to fulfill a travel need, many content creators, editors and curators may ultimately be needed to fulfill an information need.

Aggregation and applying interesting filters to that aggregated content is one of the really unique things we (by that I mean,.. everyone) are experimenting with right now on the web. Blogs vs. Newspapers, etc isn't such an interesting change, because it is arguably incremental. Blogs are cheaper newspapers in some ways, especially blogs that emulate newspapers.

Aggregation however is not incremental and it is not derivative, it is new. That might not seem like a big deal to most people, but it is interesting to me because we don't yet understand it's full impact and what sort of market will grow up around it.

That's part of why I like what @howardlindzon is doing with stocktwits. If he was simply creating a place for people to write their thoughts about a stock, then they would not have been creating anything really new., what he did though was let people create that content elsewhere (it could be anywhere, it could be right on stocktwits as well) and instead focused on building a really smart aggregation and markup system, which is where the value really gets created.

Push publishing models are getting boring, Pull aggregation models are where there is an opportunity to do really new, and potentially big, things. It's where value gets bundled up. Network effects are no good if you can't identify them and use them, aggregation is where you can do that.

... and you never forgot it

I enjoy a good vendetta. I think it is healthy.

$CSCO builds messaging systems with massive scale, and they want their hardware to be the messaging bus for not just networks (IP packets), but machines and people too...

My money is on $CSCO picking them up.

2009 is the year to eat your Wheaties and get strong., Just keeping existing investments on track will be a full time job

Really funny that you bring this up. My Leopard install went bad 2 days ago and a reinstall didn't seem to fix it,. so I did a fast download of Ubuntu and ran it off the live CD,. Since everything was backed up I decided to just go ahead and install it on the machine.

I have been amazed at how good it is. Sure there are loads of stupid things that linux distributions should just standardize (like the dozens of window managers), but things were really easy for me overall.

I think part of the reason is that I am running it on a MacBookPro, which is a known configuration that Ubuntu seems to have gone out of its way to support well. Pretty much everything, including the function keys "just worked".

I was the most blown away when I plugged in my ipod and a media play popped up, downloaded a bunch of codecs and just started playing.

I am no linux guru by any stretch, but this has been good fun.

As for AWN, I installed it in all of 15 minutes, but ended up just using the built in Gnome panels.. I like having a few buttons, etc on there.

Viral? Where the fuck is the viral in this?

Dear god. It is more noise injected in to a relationship (business<->consumer) that is already so noisy and messy that most of us can't bear it.

Everyone likes to simplify things to a point where it is blog-friendly. 37signals is definitely no exception.

The idea of a lifestyle business makes a lot of sense for certain people. What I don't understand is why a 20-something team of a few developer would be at all happy with a 200k or $1million idea.

When you are in your 20s, 30s, single or at least don't have kids and are oozing with raw talent, you are worth way more than just a few bucks a month.

Like anything, you have to stay open to all options. If you hit on an idea that is big, then it can be a lot of fun trying to hit that homerun.

Didn't 37s take money from Bezos? They never mention that.

Meh, I think I'll leave it. I wrote the post yesterday.

I think a lot of people feel this way, 3-years is just so painful, and I think a lot of people have memories of signing 36 month contracts and wanting to go to a new plan or carrier in the last 12 months, but being stuck.

Hah,. I like that idea,. the sort of Red Green version of the iphone.

Duct tape anyone?

This is NOT unlimited data,. Bell is very clear about that,. this is unlimited web browsing through the browser they provide. Same as the HTC deal, just more expensive.

The HTC touch was all this a long time ago. This is not a new plan, it is MORE EXPENSIVE than the 7$ plan they were offering with the touch. That is what I think is pathetic. Nothing new or creative to compete, just a price bump and a device from a new maker (a device that nobody cares about to boot)

I think saying you are clarifying facts here is being a little generous. I appreciate the comment,. I do,. but I figure I will respond, at the risk of sounding like an asshole.

1- Sure,. the numbers have looked similar on both markets.
2- I did not make a link between the petition and the stock market. I just pointed out that it has dropped since they announced the iphone plans. If only an online petition had that influence.
3- my point exactly. ... oi.
4- New entrants will not be live in that short a time span. This is irrelevant to my post.

Well, they do have to truck those bits from one place to another. Why do you think your TXT message can be so delayed sometimes? (90 minutes for me today a few times)

In Canada, 2 makes more than a trend. ;-)

It just says "to a maximum of 400", not $400. It could mean 400 months ;)

Yieks. I will test this with mine today. That is scary.

Looks like a Moto with a beer belly.

I use a keypad-lock password on my iphone. It is easy and fast, I think the n95 has an option to do that as well. It is sort of a catch-all for this kind of thing.